Day Twenty Four - Anticipation

 

Ethiopian manuscript in the British Library

I have been thinking what to say about this one for some time.  

The picture follows the birth of Christ, as his family's first act is to become asylum seekers in Egypt.  

So if beginnings are so important in the development of security in the infant, here is child with lots of vulnerability markers against them.  They even drop below the radar of the State (sometimes preferable).

"Out of the strong came forth sweetness."  Out of instability came forth something which holds the world together.

The most fragile of stories.  About to be crushed at every turn.  And yet, like re-watching a old disaster movie, we are privileged to know how it will end.

Here is a verse from John's first letter which anticipates a future event; one where the ending has not yet been revealed.

We know that we are dearly loved because we are called ‘children’. 

Many do not realise this. What is more, when Jesus returns we will see him clearly and be made like him. Let us be pure now, just as he is pure.

PRAYER: The only thing we know for certain is that you have said that you will never leave us.